Posyandu berguna untuk memberdayakan masyarakat dan memberikan kemudahan memperoleh pelayanan kesehatan dasar. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor yang berhubungan dengan perilaku kunjungan ke posyandu pada ibu balita di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Pancoran Mas Kota Depok tahun 2012. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif dengan desain cross sectional. Dengan sampel 298 ibu balita yang dipilih secara acak di 20 posyandu.
Hasil penelitian didapatkan ibu balita yang berperilaku baik berkunjung ke posyandu masih rendah sebanyak 39,9%. Ada 5 variabel yang secara statistik berhubungan dengan perilaku kunjungan ke posyandu yaitu lebih banyak pada ibu yang berpendidikan dibawah SMP, berpengetahuan baik, bersikap positif, memiliki Kartu Menuju Sehat (KMS) serta membutuhkan pelayanan posyandu.
Disarankan untuk melakukan dan meningkatkan monitoring upaya promosi kesehatan dengan supervisi langsung ke posyandu dan memberikan penyuluhan kepada masyarakat tentang kegiatan yang ada di Posyandu.
Posyandu is useful to empower communities and to provide the easiest of obtaining basic health services. The objectives of this study was conducted to determine the related factors with the behavior visits to posyandu on toddlers mothers in the working area of health center Depok Pancoran Mas in 2012. This study was a descriptive with cross sectional design. There were 298 samples of toddlers mothers randomly chosen in 20 posyandu.The results obtained are wellbehaved toddler mothers as much as 39.9%. There are five variables that were statistically related with the behavior visits to posyandu namely: there were more on educated mothers under Junior School, good knowledge, positive thinking, the ownership of Health Child Card (KMS) and the needs to posyandu.It is further recommended to perform and improve the monitoring of health promotion efforts with direct supervision to posyandu and provide counseling to the public about the existing activities in posyandu.
